Design Emergency
Hosted by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli · Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
4.9from 38 ratings
- 54
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Design Emergency
Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future. Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (http://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
- Category
- arts · news · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 8 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 54 episodes have a transcript.
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
David Chipperfield on Architecture’s Priorities
16 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Francis Kéré on Building Stories
20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
On Crafts
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David Chipperfield on Architecture’s Priorities
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Politically, it's a very difficult thing to do. The reason we want to do it is not because we have anything particularly against traffic, but because we think that it erodes urban quality. We are motivated at sort of linked up environmental thinking. For instance, we're working on abandoned villages. You can't just restore houses. You need people to live in it. So you've actually got to start thinking about hardware, software, you've got to think about social and economic conditions and environmental conditions as well as physical, architectural and urban ones. I think architects are very... well positioned to make a significant contribution in this direction and the architects you've quoted and there's many others are showing the way in strict physical terms but i think if you talk to all of them they still complain that they're fighting against something it's very difficult to find true collaborative efforts Switzerland is the unique place. […]
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- David Chipperfield
- Francis Kéré
- Irma Boom
- Beatriz Colomina
- Mark Wigley
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 11 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 27 ratings
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- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli host the show. Published by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli.
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